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Brian Hauer writes on Tiamat that the Seiki 39-inch 4K television, at $500 a piece, is the best high-productivity display a programmer can get. If you work in this or a similar field where more windows open at once could boost your productivity, you might want to consider it too, especially when even cheap but good monitors are between $400 and $650 for a mere 27 or 30 inches.

As with other HDTVs, using this Seiki as a monitor does have some issues, Hauer says:

Heralded by some as a "breakthrough," the Seiki monitor—ahem, television—does have its limitations. Most notably, the HDMI 1.4 ports can only support 30Hz at the signature 3840x2160 resolution. Lower-end GPUs are also similarly limited to 30Hz at that resolution. The GPU in a truly old desktop PC will not support 3840x2160 at all, but if you are programming on something so old, you should first contend with that.